Mean to Me by Roy Turk

Overview

Key: F major · Chords used: 22 · Sections: 4

Form: A Section → B Section → C Section → D Section

Where these chords come from: a lead sheet of this public-domain song, contributed by a musician to the Wikifonia archive and preserved in the OpenEWLD lead-sheet collection (Simonetta et al., 2018). It describes the song as written, not any particular recording. This page shows that lead sheet as-is: the analysis below is generated directly from it by code, not written by AI. Consecutive repeats of a chord are shown once, and the piano voicings are our playable arrangement of each chord symbol, not a note-for-note transcription.

Section by section

A Section

• F – Dm7 – Gm7 – C7 – C7/B♭ – Am7 – Dm7 – B♭maj7 – E♭9 – Am7 – D7 – Gm7 – C9 – F6 – Dm7
  I – vi7 – ii7 – V7 – V⁴₂ – iii7 – vi7 – IVmaj7 – bVII9 – iii7 – VI7 – ii7 – V9 – I6 – vi7

B Section

• G7 – Gm7 – C7 – F – Dm7 – Gm7 – C9 – Am7 – Dm7 – B♭maj7 – E♭9 – Am7 – D7 – Gm7 – C7 – F6
  II7 – ii7 – V7 – I – vi7 – ii7 – V9 – iii7 – vi7 – IVmaj7 – bVII9 – iii7 – VI7 – ii7 – V7 – I6

C Section

• Cm7 – F7♭9 – Bmaj7 – Gm7 – Cm7 – F7♭9 – B♭ – E♭9 – D9(no5) – D7♭9 – Gm7 – Em7♭5 – A7♭9 – E♭9 – D9(no5) – D7♭9 – G7
  v7 – I7b9 – #IVmaj7 – ii7 – v7 – I7b9 – IV – bVII9 – VI9(no5) – VI7b9 – ii7 – viiø7 – III7b9 – bVII9 – VI9(no5) – VI7b9 – II7

D Section

• Gm7 – C9(no5) – F – Dm7 – Gm7 – C9 – C7/B♭ – Am7 – Dm7 – B♭maj7 – E♭9 – Am7 – Dm7 – Gm7 – C9 – F6 – Dm7
  ii7 – V9(no5) – I – vi7 – ii7 – V9 – V⁴₂ – iii7 – vi7 – IVmaj7 – bVII9 – iii7 – vi7 – ii7 – V9 – I6 – vi7
• G7 – Gm7 – Caug7 (×2)
  II7 – ii7 – V+7
• F6
  I6

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• E♭9 (bVII9) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• Cm7 (v7) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• Caug7 (V+7) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• D7 acts as V/ii: it resolves to Gm7.
• F7♭9 acts as V/IV: it resolves to B♭.
• D7♭9 acts as V/ii: it resolves to Gm7.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the OpenEWLD lead-sheet collection (Simonetta et al., 2018). Community-contributed lead sheet (chord symbols over the melody) from the Wikifonia archive, MIT licence. Title and songwriter credit as written on the sheet.
• Section names: detected by code from repeated 8-, 12- and 16-bar phrases (letters such as A and B mark different phrases; a phrase that comes back keeps its letter). Lead sheets rarely print section names.
• Not verified: only one lead sheet of this song is available, so it hasn't been cross-checked.
• 3 chords were simplified to the closest symbol our player supports (for example, an unusual added tone dropped).
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.